Mighty Machines: Giant Digger (Signed) (Original)

Artist: John S Smith
Medium: Gouache on Board
Size: 23" x 15" (575mm x 390mm)
Date: 1980
Signature: Signed by artist top left
Code: SmithJSCutterLL

This is the Signed unique original Gouache painting by John S Smith.

Mighty Machines: Turning the Desert Into a Land of Plenty. This giant digger was constructed by a West German company and used to dig a canal in Pakistan. This took three years and was completed in 1970.

After this the whole machine was dismantled and sent to Sudan where it was used to cut a canal from the White Nile for 350km to irrigate possible farming land in Northern Sudan and Egypt.

From Look and Learn no. 962 (16 August 1980).

• Artist Biography
  John Stephen Smith (1921 - 2010; UK)
  John started drawing from an early age and he went to art school just prior to World War II when he was called up and joined the Royal Navy. He served on the Cruiser HMS Niagara on the Malta and Russian convoys. After the war he continued his art studies and career.
  
  His work has been commissioned by most shipping companies and railway companies and his art has been used by many leading publishers in the UK and USA.